Ab-e-Hyat, Water of
Life, supposed to give eternal youth.
Abhava, negation or
non-being of individual objects; the
substance, the abstract objectivity.
Adam Kadmon, the bi-sexual
Sephira of the Kabalists.
Adept, one who, through
the development of his spirit, has
attained to transcendental knowledge and powers.
Adhibhautika, arising
from external objects.
Adhidaivika, arising
from the gods, or accidents.
Adhikamasansas, extra
months.
Adhishthanum, basis
a principle in which some other
principle inheres.
Adhyatmika, arising
out of the inner-self.
Advaiti, a follower
of the school of Philosophy established
by Sankaracharya.
Ahankara, personality;
egoism; self identity; the fifth
principle.
Ahriman, the Evil Principle
of the Universe; so called by
the Zoroastrians.
Ahum, the first three
principles of septenary human
constitution; the gross living body of man according
to the Avesta.
A’kasa, the subtle
supersensuous matter which pervades all
space.
Amulam Mulam (lit. “the
rootless root"); Prakriti; the
material of the universe.
Anahatachakram, the
heart, the seat of life.
A’nanda, bliss.
A’nanda-maya-kosha,
the blissful; the fifth sheath of the
soul in the Vedantic system; the sixth principle.
Anastasis, the continued
existence of the soul.
Anima Mundi, the soul
of the world.
Annamaya Kosha, the
gross body; the first sheath of the
divine monad (Vedantic).
Antahkarana, the internal
instrument, the soul, formed by
the thinking principle and egoism.
Anumiti, inference.
Aparoksha, direct perception.
Apavarya, emancipation
from repeated births.
Apporrheta, secret discourses
in Egyptian and Grecian
mysteries.
Arahats (lit."the worthy
ones"), the initiated holy men of
the Buddhist and Jain faiths.
Aranyakas, holy sages
dwelling in forests.
Ardhanariswara, (lit.
“the bisexual Lord"); the unpolarized
state of cosmic energy; the bi-sexual Sephira, Adam
Kadmon.
Arka, sun.
Aryavarta, the ancient
name of Northern India where the
Brahmanical invaders first settled.
A’sana, the third
stage of Hatha Yoga; the posture for
meditation.
Asat, the unreal, Prakriti.
A’shab and Laughan,
ceremonies for casting out evil spirits,
so called among the Kolarian tribes.
Ashta Siddhis, the eight
consummations of Hatha Yoga.
Asoka (King), a celebrated
conqueror, monarch of a large
portion of India, who is called “the Constantine
of Buddhism,” temp. circa 250 B.C.
Astral Light, subtle
form of existence forming the basis of
our material universe.
Asuramaya, an Atlantean
astronomer, well known in Sanskrit
writings.